Rouxbe Online Culinary School
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Founded in 2005, Rouxbe ("ROO-bee") is the world's leading online cooking school. Rouxbe offers instructor-guided certification cooking courses for cooks of all levels using intuitive learning technology. Courses can be taken on demand, at your own pace. Rouxbe can be found in the kitchens of homes, schools, restaurants and professional culinary academies in over 180 countries.

Lesson Overview

Professional chefs have the ability to bring a dish quickly together and plate it beautifully without hesitation. They do this with confidence and great consistency because they plan it out beforehand and continually practice.

Excellent, consistent, and quick plating takes just a bit of forethought, practice and skill.

In this lesson, we will share a few of the foundational guidelines that cooks use every day in professional kitchens.

Note that this is only scratching the surface of the possibilities and creativity of plating. If you follow these simple guidelines, your plating will improve dramatically.

Lesson Objectives

At the end of this lesson you'll be able to:

identify the anatomy of a plate

describe why white, round plates are the most common for plating

understand how the color, texture, shape and size of each ingredient affects a plate design

describe why a rough drawing of a plated dish prior to cooking is beneficial for the plating process